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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.

Ben Affleck

When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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Creation Director Greatness Name Risk Yourself
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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Command Criticism Director Insecure Move Myself Reality
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
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Important Invention Known Myself People
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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Appreciation Children Himself Remember Young
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Home Myself Time Woman
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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Actor Finding Trap Trying Yourself
I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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Appearance Better Burn Learning
I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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Allow Complete Disappointment Failure Feeling Hard Time Myself See
It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Knock Life Yourself
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
You have to pay people real money.
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Money Pay People Reality
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People

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